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I can't answer this question because we're not using a lot of our gifts right now because of our tiny apartment, but I'd have to say just having nice pots is key. Oh, and really good knives.
I didn't get a Le Creuset, but I heart those big time. I'm going to buy one when we get our first home. ;)
i heart my le creuset cookware! we didn't register for it -- i actually bought them myself.
i guess the most useful things have been our global knives and all clad cookware. i wish we had registered for china in retrospect!
My Calphalon pots! I heart them. I use the wok almost every time I cook. And recently I broke out the Kitchenaid mixer and food processor... perfect for holiday baking.
Sadly, I haven't used any of the nice china or silverware yet.
We didn't get any Le Creuset and I am too cheap to buy my own!
We didn't have a huge registry but we did get J.A. Henckels knives which we both loooooove. It's crazy - you don't know how much your old knives suck until you try one of these puppies. And it's definitely the gift we use the most.
Definitely our knives, our wok, and our pressure cooker (yes, I'm old school).
My giant Le Creuset is fab, and the KitchenAid stand mixer. I'm obsessed! I look for recipes where I will get to use it!
Jasmine what kinds of things do you make in your pressure cooker? Stews?
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My Cuisinart MINI prep plus (food chopper). It's just the perfect size for servings from 2 to 8. You can use it for salsa, pesto, guacomole, onions, garlic, quick chopping for stirfry. It makes the prepping process go so much faster.
Penguin, I use it primarily to make Indian curries. I was so anti-pressure cooker for the longest time because I once saw the top come off on my mom's old pressure cooker when I was a kid. It literally shot off and curry went everywhere. It was kind of traumatizing! But I have a nice electric one that feels very safe. I have this Indian beef stew recipe that I love but it would take over an hour and a half on the stove-- in the pressure cooker, I can do it less than thirty minutes.
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Ohhhh I'd love to get that recipe, Jasmine! We live near so many great indian places it's hard to get me to make it at home, but I love the way curry smells on a cold day in the house!
I'll email it to you tonight!
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Our Lodge Pan, our 14 cups food processor and the mixing bowls set. Love them, we use everything every week. And we exchange some gifts we were less likely to use to get a coffee machine (Breville 1 cup) for Hubby, saving a lot on not going out for coffee that way.
i love our digital frame! i'm cheating a little on this quesiton because i actually didn't register for it but our friends knew that we needed one. it's such a great way to relive our wedding on a day to day basis!
i'm right there with you on the le creuset pots! and the calphalon pots as well! oh, and our wusthof knives. what we didn't register for and regretted was a bigger coffee maker and a blender. we finally (2 yrs later!) got them and LOVE them!
A GPS. :)
Wonderful, early, wedding registry gift.
No more getting lost (hopefully) and stressful angry phone calls ;)
We didn't register for it, but we received a Japanese knife from Mr. Avo's parents. Best gift ever. Now I see why people spend hundreds on their knives!
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My favorite thing, which was actually a Christmas gift, is the Vidalia Chop Wizard, which is totally an as-seen-on-tv thing you can get at BB&B for $20. (There is a fancier version from William Sonoma.)
Honestly, although we registered for some awesome things...the BEST things we registered for were the pieces of furniture that we knew we wanted from Pottery Barn and Crate and Barrel. After the wedding, we received a 10% registry completion discount off of these items because they were on our registry. It made the money we received from people go that much further toward purchasing some pretty big ticket items.
We got a block of Shun knives for our wedding from my in-laws and that's for sure the thing we use the very most. Then, we went to use our wedding money and 10% off to complete our registry to get the steaks knives to go with it. When we did that, someone had entered our knives in the system wrong because we got 3 four-piece sets of steaks knives for about $100 (and they should have cost more like $1000)! We felt so bad and told them that's not the price we remembered them being, but they insisted that had to be the price because that's what it was scanning as. So, that was for sure the registry item we ended up being the most excited about! 
Wow, this is hard. We totally love our food processor, and have used it a lot. We are also loving our new knives, although we didn't get them for the wedding, but for Christmas (from my parents). But the two things we use the most are the giant Cuisinart crockpot, and a really large electric skillet. It might be different if it was summer, but when you're buried in snow and not going to see the upside of 20F anytime soon, comfort food gets important. We have made all kinds of soups and stews, and lots and lots of fried chicken and grilled cheese sandwiches. The electric skillet is huge, so we can cook for a lot of people pretty easily. And our favorite dish lately is almost anything made with a pork shoulder in the crock pot. It's absolutely the cheapest cut of pork you can buy, and it's just fantastic in soup, or stew, or green chile, or just spiced up as pulled pork.
Of the gifts we received, I think I love my kitchenaid mixer (even though it's not pink), and our nintendo Wii and wii fit that we received unexpectedly, the most!
YES!! The crock pot!! I have barely given it a rest since we opened it and have consequently been making waaaay too much food for just the two of us. But I can't stop!!!! On a related note, we got a little baby crock pot for keeping dips warm that I am also extremely excited to try out.
Here's a tip for replacing (or gifting) Henckels knives - they almost always have the classic chef's knife at Marshall's for 10 or 15 bucks. I have five of them, and I LOVE them... and I got them all for what I would have paid for just one!
@WeddingKitty: since you are obsessed with the crockpot check out www.crockpot365.blogspot.com I think today she actually hits 365, but I haven't checked yet.
My Calphalon cookware and my Henkles knives -- I don't know how I ever cooked without them. I actually ENJOY washing them and putting them away immediatly after using them. Strange, I know.
OXO salad spinner. I was hesitant, because it takes up quite a bit of valuable cabinate space... but I LOVE IT.
We also registered for a ton of high-quality dish towls so that we could demote all our worn ones to rags. Highly recommend it. Plus, since they are about $6 each, many of our guests got them to "round out" their gift, but all (8 towels?) together is more than we would have ever wanted to spend at one time on "just towels."
Ditto to previous posts about the high-quality knife set. I can't remember what brand we have, but definitely a well-used gift.
And contrary to what many people told us, we use our china. We use it for holidays of course, but we also bring it occasionally just to make a nice meal feel extra special. But it's expensive, so definitely decide for yourself if you'll use it.
We registered for an egg and muffin toaster. Everyone made fun of us until they witnessed its magic!
Our top 5 best things would be:
1) All-Clad pots and pans,
2) Shun knives,
3) KitchenAid stand mixer,
4) LeCreuset dutch oven (I have to say that Weddingbee turned me on to LeCreuset!),
5) Zyliss salad spinner,
...and then our dishes and bed sheets. I agree with whoever commented before me about the importance of good dish towels! We would never spend $10 on 3 dish towels, but we registered for them and ended up getting 3 or 4 sets! That is something we would not splurge on for ourselves, but they make drying dishes a lot nicer!
@ lalocal - that is TOO funny because Mr. Caramel really really wants one of those!
Gosh, I guess everyone gets Shun knives hmm? But my favorite gift is one of the least expensive-- it's our electric water kettle boiler! It is AWESOME for making tea, french press and to boil water very quickly. I love it!!!
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@ Caramel - I got mr peng the electric kettle a few years ago for Christmas... one of our most useful things in the kitchen ever!
You guys are making me jealous with your veggie choppers... I didnt end up getting that (registered for one but didnt get bought) and then I didn't buy it afterwards but I wish I had! I have some WS gift cards I should go splurge and get one :)
Did any of you register or get a new rice cooker? We're in the market for a new one and I"d love to hear some reviews!
My favorite items on my registry:
1) My Calphalon knife set! It's amazing how quickly you learn to cook when it doesn't take an hour to go through a tomato!
2) My rice cooker (It's cheap, it's red, and it has great reviews!) Rival 6-cup Rice Cooker - Red (RC61)
3) My Fajita/Quesadilla Grill! The top flips to make two burners. You can cook burgers, egss, fajita stuffs, etc or put the plates on to make delicious quesadillas! El Paso Fajita and Quesadilla Grill
4) My pizza stone. Great for any bread baking, pizzas, and cookies! MR. Bar-B-Q Round Pizza Baking Stone Kit - 15"
5) My calphalon wok (free when guests purchase $500 of calphalon products from your BB&B registry!!!) I love Calphalon, every piece of cookware I have is the same brand. Great quality!
1) Kitchenaid miser. Love, love, love it
2) Our dishes! We got simple, every day china from Target and we use them every. single. day. The best part is that I think about the people who gave them to use every time we have a meal (we like the people, so it's a good thing!)
3) A vacuum. A weird gift, I know, but we got a really nice Dyson vacuum and I love it
4) Grill. We love to entertain outdoors, and some camping friends of us bought us a gas grill! It's perfect for us to use in the spring and summer.
And ps, we got the same rice cooker as MightySapphire. It works great, snowpea!
Top 5
1. our Dyson, I don't have to vacuum anymore because DH loves it so much.
2. good sheets sets.
3. Kitchenaid mixer. I makes baking so much easier
4. Henkel knife set. i was actually told i can't use them, becuase they are so sharp .They make cooking dinner so much faster.
5 Hotel towels from Macys. So soft.
Suzanno-I would love some uf your soup recipes if your willing to share.
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hrm... it has to be a tie between our knives and our dyson... LOOOOOVE both.
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I'm still rounding out my registry with the little things we forgot to register for/didn't know we needed. What are you finding to be the thing that you registered for that you can't live without?
For us, other than our coffeemaker (we've saved TONS not going out for coffee), it's been our Le Creuset pots. I LOVE how practically nothing sticks to the bottom. Enamel pots and pans are the best! I hope to one day replace all our Ikea pots with a full set!